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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Renaming a file that starts with "-" Post 302929900 by sea on Sunday 28th of December 2014 07:19:57 PM
Old 12-28-2014
Try either quoting or escapeing the filename.

As in either one of:
Code:
mv ./"-.txt" $i.txt
mv ./\-.txt $i.txt

Also about the urls, id try with:
Code:
urls="url1 url2 ..."
for url in $urls
do
   wget -o $(basename $url).txt $url 
done

So you avoid to rename the files, alternativly you could insert at the proper places:
Code:
# Below: urls=
i=0

# Replace on wget line:
$i-$(basename $url).txt

# Below wget
i=$(($i + 1))

Hope this helps & happy holidays

EDIT:
Understand that it saved the file as -.txt because - was the default input as you did not define an output file.

Last edited by sea; 12-29-2014 at 12:34 AM.. Reason: Code & text fix
 

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uri_urn(3tcl)					    Tcl Uniform Resource Identifier Management					     uri_urn(3tcl)

__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

NAME
uri_urn - URI utilities, URN scheme SYNOPSIS
package require Tcl 8.2 package require uri::urn ?1.1.2? uri::urn::quote url uri::urn::unquote url _________________________________________________________________ DESCRIPTION
This package provides two commands to quote and unquote the disallowed characters for url using the urn scheme, registers the scheme with the package uri, and provides internal helpers which will be automatically used by the commands uri::split and uri::join of package uri to handle urls using the urn scheme. COMMANDS
uri::urn::quote url This command quotes the characters disallowed by the urn scheme (per RFC 2141 sec2.2) in the url and returns the modified url as its result. uri::urn::unquote url This commands performs the reverse of ::uri::urn::quote. It takes an urn url, removes the quoting from all disallowed characters, and returns the modified urls as its result. BUGS, IDEAS, FEEDBACK This document, and the package it describes, will undoubtedly contain bugs and other problems. Please report such in the category uri of the Tcllib SF Trackers [http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=12883]. Please also report any ideas for enhancements you may have for either package and/or documentation. KEYWORDS
rfc 2141, uri, url, urn CATEGORY
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